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|isbn=00084544420241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Flicker in the DarkConfession|author=Stacy WillinghamGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, If you were to bring up an image of a medical psychologistcity banker in your mind, is completing a session with a new patientyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Lacey A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You seeEast End, Chloe knows what it's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Daviswhere he was familiar with violence, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agopoverty and injustice. Their bodies have never There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - trophies taken from their bodies extremely bright - tucked away in and he has a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to the policebe stupid. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with him for the last twenty yearsCitibank. Her mother is in Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a care hometrader.
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|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1035021803|title=Escape RoomThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IIt've seen junior variants s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Choose Your Own Adventures former mentor and Carole' format cover escape rooms – s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationcircumstances seem suspicious, and have to solve problems in order say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to get their way outthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people Even though they were in such an adventurebusiness together as antique hunters, with she has not felt able to be near the regular second person narrative replaced by man or pursue the firstprofession she loved. Here After the split, Ami and four other tweenagersshe worked in a cafe, all new to each other met and booked into married James (on the game without any rebound from the love of their friendsher life, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they who was murdered) and Freya and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerJames have now divorced. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964
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|isbn=1732898731AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A ChildrenAll Tomorrow's Book for AdultsFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Michael Albanese Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! ' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It began with art suppliesWell, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in abundancemy lifetime. The BoyI've kept up reasonably well with what's delight was in advantageous to me but I'm left with the sense feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of order in his room: it made him feel happyis - frankly - quite frightening. As he grew up and became a ManOf course, his life became more complicated I could research the possibilities and he dealt with this by getting bigger the probabilities and better boxesend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Look carefully at the pictures I needed people I knew I could trust and you'll see that one of them has who could deliver information in a padlock..way I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=B09MN1526WSunny Singh|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)|author=Liz MistryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It's the third murder The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the space of terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a few weeks wartime photographer and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersAbhi, the hotel manager. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first As Abhi continues to try to arrive on care remotely for the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on residents who are still alive in the outskirts of Bradford. Onlyhotel, this time, it's going he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be different. The body appears cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to Nikki try to be that of capture what's happened through her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdownphotography. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but Although they only ever talk over the body is clad in designer clothes phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going they both wait to see if they will be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionrescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529153298|title=All the White SpacesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randallthough. Women have been disappearing. For Jonathan Well, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startthey've been murdered, and the opportunity but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without move the disapproval and constraints of his parentsfamily 'Down South'. However When you're from Yorkshire, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like Down South is a funeral shroud over the expeditionfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Guilt For Miv, mistrust and grief stalk the party andmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, when disaster strikes and they are forced she'll do anything to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darknessprevent that. If Jonathan is to make it out of She's not worried about the Arctic winter alive, he will have dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombanyone.|isbn=1789097835
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|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1398524085|title=QuicksilverHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, for he's lived in a nunEtty. are all worried but -run orphanage since he was a threestrangely -day old foundlingher husband, Alec, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffnot. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'' Shortly afterwards, for something – call it unearthly intuitionEtty and Greg, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded find the body of him that he go to a derelict dinerGreg's father, find a gold coin worth a fortuneDuncan Ackerley, cash in the value of it out of his bank and prepare river. It was an easy assumption for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types police to turn up make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and suggest then committed suicide when hecouldn's of interest to themt stand the guilt. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is The Salter children are not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and a whole lot more besideswonder about what really happened.|isbn=1542019885
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|isbn=00084416181035906708|title=Other ParentsDiva|author=Sarah StovellDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up born to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association December 1923 and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit only moved to the schoolAthens when she was thirteen. There Her original surname was one difficulty, though - they were Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'devastatingly shockable'', with two members, to make it more manageable in particular, causing problems for the headStates. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring When she was back in on Toy Day but Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was just raised under the Nazi occupation by a warm-up act mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationher elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesChristopher Edge|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little boy who has some strugglesmovie marathon at their local cinema, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see a place that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. His All big sistermovie fans, Rosie, has been a huge support they're looking forward to himlots of exciting films, talking him down when things were difficultand many, encouraging himmany snacks! However, and writing a book with himas the movie starts, all they very quickly realise that something about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it this new film format is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldvery different, and she isnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't answering her phoneeven imagine. His parents won't speak But as they lurch from one film genre to him or when the next, can they do, he doesn't understand or take in figure out what on earth is going on? Will they're saying. Nothing seems ever get back to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosiecinema, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Spring.their real lives?|isbn=13985108901839942738
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Red is My HeartCompass and Blade
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|genre=Literary Fiction Teens|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my househeart. And so was this one'' Rosevear, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, isone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, black they capture the island's leader and white and redMira's father. YesDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and I think itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's possible territory, Mira must be determined to say not one page lacks stop at nothing to save the influence future of some striking visual ideasher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19135471830008664730
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|isbnauthor=1529135567James Sherwood Metts|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerPlanet Storyland
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's five years since Things have been a bit sticky for the stag weekendEarthlings. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) AI and his four groomsmenautomation have been proceeding apace, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Joshother tasks that took time to accomplish. The first night Just as they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - were beginning to get used to all this technological change and in the night Scot managed starting to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timthink of other, who was experienced in survival techniquesnew ways to spend time, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to townalong came an awful pandemic. Scott followed soon after but there Life was no sign of Tim. Every yearpretty much shut down and, Tim's fatheralong with it, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue all the search although they do now acknowledge that many daily social interactions on which they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timdepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenMatthew Tree|title=Bitter FlowersWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to work. Howeverbe different from his father, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, drunk and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of an eight year old girl his artistic passions all failed miserably and who disappeared one night and was never foundhad endless crises of self confidence. Somehow, these disparate cases appear So Tim applied himself to be linkedhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?achievable ambitions.|isbn=191319308XB0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Kia AhankoobA G Slatter|title=The Gold Lion and Briar Book of the Tournament of SentinelsDead|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsFantasy|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborateall mine, creating at last. I just want to enjoy it for a dynamic and prosperous societywhile. Each power is contained within '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a magical ring belonging to one town under the protection of eight countries led by Myriadthe Briar's children , a family of witches who protect the town and their descendantsthe wider world from the Darklands. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the eight countries went first non-witch to war. Having fought themselves be born into an endless her family for generations and ruinous stalemate as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and finding potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the cost of war too hightown's leader, a solution is proposedand Ellie takes her place beside her. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsAs challenges come her way left, known as sentinelsright and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a single combat tournamentmaelstrom of chaos. The winner will take possession of all the rings Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and become determine what to do as the supreme ruler of DunivaBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1803364548
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|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529900360|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to work with ask for his father in help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the blacksmith's forgehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, heDelaware's almost of the age to become a full apprenticepartner, and who nudged Milo into asking for help with again. She knew that the new batch of dragonswords is certainly involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Not that there are any dragons The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..a remote property in Bel Air. Strange signals from within He was the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite heir to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, Italian shoe empire and that Tom she is rare in the ability married to summon them, share magical attributes, an extremely rich man and ride with it's not the Italian. But which of them...|isbn=1839940026was the primary target?
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|isbn=15293465411529395224|title=Something to HideLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: An Inspector Lynley NovelThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Elizabeth GeorgeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's late July Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, a representative from the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she Rowlands didn't catch but would later turn out want to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameronfollow in his footsteps, a filmmaker. It follows particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on from the success of Deborahhis father's book ''London Voices'': life. When he was seventeen he took the meeting is an exploration opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. DeborahIt hadn's uncertain about quite how successful she could be t - as the problem seems with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks to and photographsbe a professional footballer.
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|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0861541774|title=ShadebringerA Nye of Pheasants|author=Grayson W HooperSteve Burrows
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeDCI Domenic Jejeune's not really that invested close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the fight against CommunismSingapore to meet up with an old ally, nor is he particularly interested Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a career in the military. If street brawl - he would later maintain that he's honest - which Clyde usually is, was facing a man armed with himself at least a knife - and he hasn't got many choices and this onekilled a Ghurka. Initially, at least, gets him out he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the rut man. Now he's incould be facing the death penalty. He's good in training Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Hewouldn's chuffed with himselft help Danny at all.
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondPerfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There The Perfect Passion Company is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her dating agency in amongst all the other kidsEdinburgh, who have had their entire childhoods sold run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship online apps in providing a hand-to-mouthmore personal, every man for himself kind of existencetailored service. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life Ness has taught asked her about betrayal younger cousin Katie if she could come and how befriending people only leads look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to harm, there might be get away for a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workerswhile. But surely that doesn't mean there Katie is any truth in the existence coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=4chance to come home to Edinburgh.5|genre=Humour|summary=Members of Parliament like And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to believe that an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the country is run by politiciansIsabel Dalhousie novels, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - with some new characters who are the driving force behind the governmentquickly begin to charm. We are Katie has no experience in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisrunning a business, or in match-making, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09MYXSRV4|title=OtterNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise always her very helpful (and Hare|author=Cordellya Smith|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butrather handsome) neighbour, unfortunatelyWilliam, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in lend a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came about.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher0811771741|title=Walking on SunshineInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Crafts
|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Starting a creative business has never been easier.'InstaKnits for Baby' 'gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'If not nowlong, when?cosy afternoons in front of the fire'' I know that I'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessvariety. ThereThe projects are divided by the time they's a lot of motivation ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to do so: I make twenty hours and more items than we can sensibly use and there are a lot of people who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftstwenty hours. Selling would offset All the costsprojects are attractive, which can be quite considerable modern and it could be fun to do, couldn't it? useable. But where to start? What do I need to think perhaps show my age when I wonder about? Well, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read 'social-media-worthy projects'Making a Living'but that's me being picky.
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|author=Freya MarskeDean Koontz|title=A Marvellous LightThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Robin Blyth Benny is nudged into having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job in the Civil Service, much he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey home, and learns it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the streets of London are threaded with magicthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Desperate So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to remove his house is a curse that threatens new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to swallow help himsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysideBenny, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Islesare. |isbn=15290808861662500491
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|isbnauthor=0241480442Adam Stower|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau Murray and Sebastian CopienBun
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|genre=CookeryConfident Readers |summary=EmotionallyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, I am a veganwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. MentallyBut he's a bad magician's cat, I am so his favourite bun has been turned into a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practicallycatflap they both use can chuck them out, I am not into the regular back garden, but into a veganworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. It worked for This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a while apart from the odd blip with regard troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to cheese be honest, but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope donhe't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasns turned up and he't the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able ll have to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=suppl_staflB0C47LV1PC|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversFragility|author=Kim StaflundMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLiterary Fiction|summary=So, Can youmake a ''Yo birthing person''ve finished writing your book and joke? And if you think could, is the hard work question should you make it? Or is all donethe question if you did, would it land? You're convinced The catch is that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?answer for both could well be.... no.
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|isbn=13987069061529431735|title=The LostWinter Visitor|author=Simon BeckettJames Henry
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|genre=Crime
|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young sonFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happenedwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd fallen asleep in been exiled on the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had goneCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely The return has come through it and about because he's out with his team when he gets had a phone call letter from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used to be his best friend but itex-wife, saying that she's a ill and hasn't long time since they've spokento live. HeIt's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his voice - underwear and he asks Jonah sent to meet him at Slaughter Quaya watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|author=Amanda MasonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Hiding PlaceGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Needing Eli is a busy lad – by day an escape from their turbulent lifeapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to Whitbythe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by all entrants have to navigate the world in the name company of Elder Housea magical beast. She hopes that it will be This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the perfect place eatery leads to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is unsettling and off to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – and before long Nell starts the only thing to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18387719640571382231}}
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|authorisbn=Paul Cleave178763681X|title=The Quiet PeopleKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary= I am not Chef Paul Delamare took a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is teaching job at a residential cookery school in a hurryBelgravia. He has didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to hurry because do what he has children wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he should not have'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of problems - are all his car and tries own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to run and then hears sirens behind himturn up dead. Unfortunately, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=1913193942
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|author=Will CarverSarah Marsh|title=Psychopaths AnonymousA Sign of Her Own
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Maeve is After a bout of scarlet fever as a high functioning alcoholicchild, drinking continuously and alsoEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, curiouslyeverything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, addicted Ellen is sent to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps school where she is mainly using the groups taught to find targets..lip read, but physically restrained from signing.targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery From here, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who think as she does, has been teaching the deaf and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of using a system called Visible Speech. At the groups she decides to set up her ownsame time, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=19131937561035401614
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|isbn=15294181001803816759|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesThe Unravelling|author=Martin WalkerWill Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=IIt'm not usually s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a fan bit of short stories - I find it all too easy adventure and to put get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the book down between stories AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and forget riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to pick it up again - but I am a fan do some real policing. In the aftermath of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to read bring her home. Joe isn''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard t the only one trying to resist save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and I'm rather glad that I didn't even trytech nerd, is also on the case. For those new to What went wrong? Did the series, theresystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.kidnapping connected?
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|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529421284|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)Laying Out the Bones|author=Jenny O'BrienKate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hannah Thomas It was having her first night away from her sonone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Hunter had diabetes and this was controlled by In a pump attached to his stomachgully, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her a human skeleton came to get married the surface and she thought it would forensic testing proved the body to be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her friend, Milly, He'd been a known drug user and had arranged to take her boyfriendlearning disabilities, Liam, for a night in so it could have been a posh hotel simple case of misadventure but then he dumped her and she couldnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't get the money backconvinced. Geary was a townie, so Hannah what was offered he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the opportunity suicide of Holly Gilbert and to go in his placetwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. She would return home Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to find Ian dead you and five-year-old Hunter missingme) investigate.
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|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q0571379559|title=Without a TraceThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Jane BettanyFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, shelives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'd just come through a divorce s stood the passage of time, storms and right now it was raining hardfloods. All she wanted was Her husband, Richard, struggles to get back grow his vegetables, to her new home complete the delivery rounds - and settle down for a quiet eveningto bring in sufficient money. It wasnThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't going to be though: believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed Max is out with a knife in his chest. Shemother that she'd no idea who he wass his nanny.
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|isbn=18387748231529425867|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Lost and Never Found (A Three Dog ProblemD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=S J BennettSimon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's 2016 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and the Queen's Private Secretaryalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret son of Ryan and too little exercise father of Ryan, is putting a strain on his waistbandnot. He's not any of those things. SwimmingHe's white, he decidesoriginated from a trailer park, is the way to go barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pooltrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. There was broken glass - You might wonder if you're being introduced to a crystal tumblerpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, by you're not. The two men are just different sides of the look at it - probably one of same policing coin. Sometimes the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outcombination works brilliantly well. Still, Sometimes it was a shock for Sir Simon's problematic.
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|isbnauthor=057136358XMosby Woods|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didnThe West isn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he dominant force it once was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was Nobody in Burma with the army ''where he got West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the chance to kill a lot best course of the little yellow fellows and had action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a fine old time''push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. He Imagine then, there was spending a lot of time man with Percy Antrobus - precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose can tell you what will happen given any set of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? It was after Percy's death that he saw Perhaps the benefits of taking up a job most valuable asset in Spainhistory.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1
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